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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The diagram below shows the result of a comparison between a package (</span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">Class Model</span><span class="f_BodyText">) in the current project and that package in a Baseline (</span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">version 0.1</span><span class="f_BodyText">) captured at an earlier date. Notice that:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">The results are displayed on the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Compare Utility </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">tab.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">A hierarchy of model elements is displayed in the left-hand pane. It is clearly visible, from the </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-weight: bold;">Status</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> column and from the triangular icon, which items in the hierarchy have been changed (Status </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">Changed</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">), deleted from the model (</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">Baseline only</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">), added to the model (</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">Model only</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">) and switched to different packages (</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">Moved</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">) since the Baseline was captured.</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">If you click on an item with a </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Status</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> entry in the left hand pane, the right-hand pane displays a table of properties showing the values of those properties in the current model and in the Baseline. For each property where there is a difference between the model and the Baseline, the row is highlighted. This example shows that the Entity element now named </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">CreateLog</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> was called </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;">Object1</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> in the Baseline</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">, and the element was last modified on November 7 2007.</span></li>
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<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="example%20comparison.png" width="903" height="470" border="0" alt="Example Comparison"></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The right panel might, for some fields, display only part of the value (such as </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Advanced Properties</span><span class="f_BodyText">, above). It might also not be immediately obvious what a change is. In either case, you can double-click on the property to display full details and to highlight the exact differences. The following example shows the expanded and highlighted changes to </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Advanced Properties</span><span class="f_BodyText">.</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="differencebaseline.png" width="637" height="535" border="0" alt="DifferenceBaseline"></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Compare Utility</span><span class="f_BodyText"> tab enables you to perform operations on the reported information, using the <a href="compare_utility_tab_toolbar.htm">toolbar, context menu and keyboard</a>.</span></p>




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